Masuda Akari

"I still believe in miracles!"

Masuda Akari is one of the current kenkyuusei of AKB0048 as member of the 151st generation.

Personality
Akari is very well behaved and towards strangers she behaves politely. Actually this isn't her regular self. Her regular self is difficult to discribe. Akari describes herself as open for everything. She is open and friendly to mostly everyone. Regular, to everyone who likes 0048. When she is among other members of 0048, she a bit like a perverted old man but it is how she shows her affection.

In the past, Akari was arrogant. She stopped with beeing this, because she understood, that she was wrong with AKB0048. Because of this, she often listens to others, when they talk about AKB0048.

Skills
Akari often says, that she has no singing skills. Her voice isn't that good like her dancing skills, which became more and more better after she started with the regular training. She isn't perfect in battles but she is quiet good with Micsabers after the training. She likes them and later regular uses two of them. When she is on out, she usually has them with herself. Despite she hasn't a good singing voice, she wants to be a Seiyuu in the future and loves singing very much. She even mentioned that she wold be okay with dissappearing if she could sing forever.

Because her parents had a shop home, she is pretty good with 'speaking' with people. She can easy persuade the people. Also, she knows many things about diffrent planets history. History is her favourite subject and she loves to learn the history of things. If she would have enough time, she probably would be able to learn much as Kanzaki Suzuko in the original AKB0048 knows.

Apparance
Akari has dark brown hair and amber colored eyes. She wears her hair down with a small tail. Like every member of AKB0048, she has heart shaped sparkle in her hair and eyes.

Her kenkyuusei uniform is, like the other 151st genertion uniforms, blue with a golden chain. She wears a dark blue jacket, a blue skirt and a long, light blue shirt. On the galaxy cinderella pictures, she general wears Oshima Yuko's uniform, because she asked the staff for giving her Yuuko's clothes while the shoting for those. Her uniform of Kono atarashii hi ni  is red-white with silvergrey parts. It is a white shirt with a grey star, some other grey parts and some red parts. She wears a red pair of jeans.

As stated by several members, Akari would be the last one, they would ask to decide an outfit: She as absolutly no fashion sense, the reason, why she never goes shopping without a member who nows how to be fashionable. Also, her Handshake Event Outfits are usually decided by other members.

Past
Akari grew up in the faith, AKB0048 is evil and bad, like many other people of her home planet. Because of this, she doesn't know much about 0048. Akari always was happy about this, seeing as she didn't want to entcounter 00.

Auddition
Some of Akaris friends wanted to auddition when the 150th generation was open. This was something, Akari didn't want, so she threatened that she would tell this to the D.G.T.O. Her friends didn't want this more than audditon. When the audditions of the 151st Generation started, her friends tried again to auddition. This time, they threatened Akari. They said, that they would tell the D.G.T.O. that she wanted to auddition, if she would say anything. At least, Akari audditioned too without wanting it. On the way to the Audditions, she and her friends were attacked by the DES. Some WOTA saved them and took them to the Flying Get. On the way, Akari saw the first time Entertainment though some videos of AKB0048. She started to lvoe it from the beginn of the video. The heart-shaped sparkles appeared then. From this on, she wanted to become a kenkyuusei. Also with this wish, something which she calls her Catchphrase. Akari thought, that music was a true comming miracle. From this on, she believed, that the galaxy keeps more miracles.

Since the auddition of the 150th generation, Akari had the feeling, that her friends didn't like her anymore.

River Selection
When she arrived on the Flying Get and knew about the Selection, Akari already had decided, that she would participle. Despite she was very scared of the battle, she tried to face forward. After a not so great conversation with Ashley, she met Miru and became something like friends with her.

Later, she was together with Ashley, Zoey and Miru in the Micsaber group and trained with Miku. When Hikari announced the break, the girls went together to the canteen. There, the girls sat on the table were the members were. Akari was suprised, that those girls were the members. She didn't knew this. The soon-to-be kenkyuusei, Ai, Aoi and Mariko talked about diffrent things.

Before the battle, Akari spoke with Miru, Ashley and Zoey and later, while the battle, she worked with Miyagi, sometimes also with Honoka, together.

While the battle, when Honoka got catched by a DES, she gave Miyagi one of her ammunition packets, where she read, that it was paintball ammunition. The three girls worked together, and later on, she also worked with Ashley and Zoey to pass the selection.

After the selection, Akari was the only one of Aleenstar who passed the auddition. She also was the only one of them who had the head-shaped sparkels in eyes and hair.

Senbatsu Sousenkyo 0123
As the sousenkyo was announced, Akari had no idea, what it would be. After beeing remembered by Miyagi, who was next to her while the announcement, she remembered the event. When the voting time of the Sousenkyo started, Akari worked hard to get elected. She planned also her speech, if she would be elected at the very first.

Aleenstar
Aleenstar (アレンスター, Arensutā) is a planet in the Carros System (カロス-星系, Karosu seikei) with Tekistar as neighbour planet. The world is under the entertainment ban but in diffrent to other planets, mostly every inhabitant of Aleenstar is also against AKB0048. The planet is very modern but still has nature. On Aleenstar, the apparance is very important.. The captial and Akari's hometown is named Miare City (ミアレシティ).

Some people write Aleenstar as "Alleenstar" or "Allenstar".

Akari's surroundings
Akari lived in a peaceful part of Miare City. Her parents have run a little shop under their flat. Akari often helped her parents in this shop. She had her friends and until she was 13, there was nothing between them. But one day, one of her friends told her, that she would want to join AKB0048. As someone, who hated 0048, she was suprised and not very happy about it.

Relationships

 * -|Successors =
 * Shinoda Mariko the 12th - Sempai;
 * Akimoto Sayaka the 15th - Same generation member; Akari generally likes her, even she sometimes agues with her.
 * -|150th Generation =
 * Takayama Ai - Sempai;
 * Hoshimiya Aoi - Sempai;
 * -|151st Generation =
 * Ashley Snow - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Currently, Akari doesn't like her, because she just turned away while a conversation with Akari.
 * Asahina Miru - Fellow Kenkyuusei; The girls met eachother while the second selection round. Akari likes Miru a lot and considers her as the best of her current friends. She calls her Miruru.
 * Kashita Miyagi - Fellow Kenkyuusei; Akari met her while the second selection round. Akari and Miyagi usually train together a bit extra, because both didn't have great skills when they joined 0048. They are close friends.
 * Miyabi Honoka - Fellow Kenkyuusei; She met her while a break of the selection training. Akari likes Honoka because of her personality and her Sousenkyo Poster. In general, she wants to be one of her friends.
 * -|Staff=
 * Motomiya Hikari -
 * Kuroki Erika -
 * -|Family=
 * Masuda Kojiro - Akari's father is an ex-DES-soldir who now runs a little shop. He was a regular DES-Soldir and nothing special. He still hates AKB0048. Until she "diappeared" and appeared then as member of AKB0048, he was very proud on her. Both liked eachother.
 * Masuda Sakura - Akari's mother also runs the shop and is against AKB0048. Despite this, she is a bit of proud on Akari.

Etymology
Masuda (増田) means increase rice field. The name was chosen, because of the fact that it is the surname of Millyna's favourite game designer, Jun'nichi Masuda.

Akari (明かり) can mean light or glimmer. 明 alone means also bright.

Quotes

 * "I still believe in miracles " - Akari's catchphrase
 * "0048 is just amazing, right? It's a long story why I'm here. " - Akari in Stage One 2.0: Kenkyuusei Dreams
 * "0048's popularity is growing! " - Akari on Handshake Event on Akibastar

Songs

 * -|A-Side=
 * Kono atarashii hi ni
 * Bonfire Love Story
 * -|B-Side=
 * To Say
 * -|Others=
 * Yume o sagasu

Trivia

 * Favorite New Era-Song: To Say
 * The Kanji 田 is also used in Kashita Miyagi's name. In her name, it is pronounciated as "da" but in Miyagi's name as "ta"
 * Akari's seiyuu was choosen, because she voiced Harune Aira  in Millyna's 2nd favourite series Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream.